Ex-Gov of Ekiti, Fayose, Quits Active Politics
POLITICS DIGEST- The Former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has formally resigned from active politics in Nigeria.
Fayose who was speaking on Arise Tv News Night, monitored by Politics Digest said he is retiring from active politics to become an elderly statesman.
“Let me state this here, I am retiring from active politics to become an elderly statesman’” the former Ekiti governor said on Arise Tv Newsnight.
Fayose became the second governor of Ekiti on 29 May 2003, after defeating the incumbent Governor, Niyi Adebayo in the gubernatorial elections. He could not complete his tenure as a result of an impeachment on 16 October 2006.
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During the 2014 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Fayose was again the PDP nominee. He won the election and was declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the new Governor of Ekiti State, for a second term as a governor.
The then incumbent governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi conceded defeat and was one of the earliest to congratulate Fayose for winning the election. Fayose was inaugurated on 16 Of October, 2014.
Fayose is now the only Nigerian to defeat an incumbent two times.
Fayose has also publicly declared his intentions to run for president in Nigerian general election, 2019.
His party, The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, admonished him against the ambition to be the party’s presidential candidate in 2019. Fayose later dropped his ambition.
